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ahoff

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About ahoff

I'm a co-founder and Head of Product at Cloudant (cloudant.com) a YC company from Summer 08.

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    If you only care about stock price, and even then no. IBM is a large company that does a lot. They put more money and people towards pure tech than most firms, especially in places…

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    IBM is huge, and it's hard to give a general impression around the whole company that makes any sense. I can only really speak about CDS (the division Compose is joining and Clouda…

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    Comment #7291232

    The shared DBs piece has been a tough nut to crack. We decided to release the new dashboard without that piece given how much of an upgrade the rest of it was. The feedback on the …

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    Comment #4882958

    Our pricing as stated on the page can be somewhat confusing. We're working on making it both less expensive and more transparent to the end user.

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    Cloudant (YC S08) is looking for a Lead Front-End Engineer

    Cloudant is looking for an amazing front-end hacker to lead development on our database-as-a-service offering We’re a small team with big ideas going after fantastically hard probl…

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    Comment #2764534

    For now, this feature will stay a part of the closed-source hosted and licensed products. But remember you can always try it out for free with our Oxygen plan at cloudant.com

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    Comment #1804841

    We learned of the application about 1 week before the deadline. We threw it together in an afternoon, spent a couple days editing, and turned it in just before the deadline. We bas…

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    Comment #1744677

    I'll admit it was a bit snarky, and written in haste. You said it much better. He wants to play the role of an objective observer here, almost like an expert journalist. But he def…

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    Comment #1744565

    The disclosure at the bottom is laughable. It should read, "Michael Stonebraker has a strong economic incentive to steer enterprises away from NoSQL. Whenever a company chooses NoS…

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    Cloudant (YC S08) Looking for Erlang/OTP Developers

    Resumator Link: http://cloudant.theresumator.com/apply/sbyZmB/ Cloudant is building a scalable distributed database and data analytics service. We're looking for talented and passi…

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    Comment #990028

    (full disclosure, I'm a founder at Cloudant) Thanks for the kind words jot. The guys behind couch.io are smart and talented, and they really know their couchdb, but I don't think t…

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    Cloudant (YC S08) Looking For Lead Front End Developer

    Startuply Posting: http://www.startuply.com/Jobs/Lead_Front_End_Developer_792_2... Cloudant is building a highly scalable distributed database service. We're looking for an uber-ta…

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    [Boston] Cloudant Looking for Erlang/OTP Hacker

    Startuply Posting: http://startuply.com/Jobs/Senior_Erlang_OTP_Developer_792_1.... Cloudant is building a highly scalable distributed database service. We're looking for a talented…

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    Comment #406959

    Well done Garry and Sachin. I was always super impressed with how well you guys execute. Congratulations!